Re: Bug report for "date"

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Paul Grinberg wrote:

> Gives me correct date:
>
> [ctpsmg11-dcdhealth@/opt/app/dcdhealth] # TZ=EDT+150 date
> Wed Jul 22 12:27:15 EDT 2009
>
> Gives me incorrect date:
> [ctpsmg11-dcdhealth@/opt/app/dcdhealth] # TZ=EDT+172 date
> Tue Jul 28 18:27:09 GMT 2009
>
> Basically I cannot go back more than 6 days...

According to the POSIX/glibc definition of TZ:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html
http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html

the hour offset must be between 0 and 24. In other words, the examples 
above are undefined by the standards. Why are you trying to use TZ to 
concoct multi-day offsets?


Cheers,
Phil